okay, romance writers of the world:
your hot sexy love interest can simply be a person with flaws and foibles, too. they don't need to outdo everyone in everything (including being better at a thing than characters who are stated to be specialised in that thing).
it's actually significantly less hot when the LI is trapped in being omniscient and hypercompetent—and, generally, by extension, smothering and paternalistic to the romance hero(ine) who they're ostensibly in love with.
I mostly see this plague m/f romance but there's definitely a segment of m/m (and slash fic) that keeps falling into this same pit, and yes I stopped reading one more romance because it did this again
















